Michelle Obama's new book 'The Light We Carry' comes out Tuesday. NPR was provided an exclusive listen Monday to two sections of the audio book, read by Obama herself.
Michelle Obama wrestled with the results of the 2016 election."It still hurts," she says."It shook me profoundly to hear the man who'd replace my husband as president openly and unapologetically using ethnic slurs, making selfishness and hate somehow acceptable." She says that running underneath were thoughts that what they had done"had not been enough" and that"the problems were too big.
"For Michelle Obama, finding the courage to support her husband's run for president in 2008 wasn't easy. Though she had a lot of fear around the loss of control it would bring, she says ultimately she decided she didn't want to sit around later thinking about the path not taken."In clinging to only what you know, you are making your world small," she says."You are robbing yourself of chances to grow.
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